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Pablo Casals: a total musician
Pablo Casals was an unconventional conductor. Nevertheless, he was a great conductor. Previously recognised as a brilliant cellist, he was a self-taught conductor with a genuine and original way of communicating with musicians. The musical advisor to the Pau Casals Foundation, Bernard Meiller, describes this unique facet of the maestro.
Pablo Casals was an innovator in cello playing technique and a virtuoso who made his mark on the history of this instrument. However, his role as a performer was associated from the outset with that of composer and orchestra conductor. Casals was therefore a total musician.
His vocation as a conductor appeared to him at a very young age inseparably with his discovery of musical performance and composition. The musician was already aware that he had a vocation as a conductor when he was only five years old! He had just joined the parish choir of El Vendrell, run by his father, and since then he wanted to teach other singers how to sing!
In 1898, when he was not yet 22 years old, Pablo Casals took his first steps
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By Erica Garcia
Pablos Casals, Catalan birth name Pau Casals i Defilló, was born on December 29th 1876 in Tarragona, Spain. His father was a native of Spain and the organist in a local parish. Casals grew up in a musical household. By age four, he could play the violin, piano, and flute. Casals did not begin his cello studies until he was 11 years old.
Rediscovery: Bach’s Cello Suites
In 1890, Pablo Casals came across a tattered copy of the Bach Cello Suites in a second-hand music store in Barcelona. He would not perform these works in public until 1901. During this 11-year period, it is believed that Casals practiced the suites daily. Before Casals, the Bach Cello Suites faded into obscurity, nearly lost to time. While Casals was studying these works, he had no reference to cite. These suites were not commonly played, and there were little to no phrase markings. Pablo Casals had to discover the music within these suites, and, unbeknownst to him at the time, create a model for all future cellists to follow. Pablo Casals is noted to be the first acclaimed cellist to record t
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Pablo Casals
Catalan cellist and conductor (1876–1973)
"Casals" redirects here. For other people with this surname, see Casals (surname). For the medieval rural settlements, see Casalis.
In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is Casals and the second or maternal family name is Defilló; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".
Pau Casals i Defilló[1][2] (Catalan: [ˈpawkəˈzalziðəfiˈʎo]; 29 December 1876 – 22 October 1973), known in English as Pablo Casals,[3][4][5][6] was a Spanish and Puerto Rican cellist, composer, and conductor. He made many recordings throughout his career of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, including some as conductor, but he is perhaps best remembered for the recordings he made of the Cello Suites by Bach. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy (though the ceremony was presided over by Lyndon B. Johnson).
Biography
Childhood and early years
Casals was born in El
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